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Postmodernism A Reader

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ISBN-10: 0231082215

ISBN-13: 9780231082211

Edition: 1993

Authors: Thomas Docherty

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Postmodernism: A Reader is a choice, comprehensive selection of articles, essays and statements that define the end of modernism in the fields of philosophy and politics, the artistic and cultural avant-garde, architecture and urbanicity, feminism and ecology, and peripheral and Third World postmodernisms. The writings found in this spirited collection enable readers to consider seriously and respond to the question, "Are we at--and should we endorse--the end of modernity?"
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Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/23/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 257
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Thomas Docherty is Professor of English at Warwick University. He has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the renaissance to the present day.� He specialises in the philosophy of literary criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures. Some of his previous publications includeJohn Donne Undone (Methuen/Routledge, 1986), Postmodernism (Harvester/Columbia UP, 1993), Aesthetic Democracy (Stanford UP, 2006) and The English Question (Sussex Academic, 2008).�

Founding Propositions
Answering the Question: What is postmodernism?
Note on the Meaning of 'Post-'
The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point
Postmodernism, by or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Modernity Compete and Incomplete
Modernity - An Incomplete Project
The Structure of Artistic Revolutions
The Last Days of Liberalism
The Fall of the Legislator
Aesthetic and Cultural Practices
Toward a Concept of Postmodernism
Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers
The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism
Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A question of ends
The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Simulacra
The City of Robots
Against Intellectual Complexity in Music
Crisis in the Avant-Garde
The Search for Tradition: Avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s
The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by the Avant-Garde
The Sublime and the Avant-Garde
The International Trans-Avant-Garde
Architecture and Urbanicity
Toward a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance
The Emergent Rules
The Duck and the Decorated Shed
Postmodern
Politics
Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism
Politics and the Limits of Modernity
The Condition of Post-Marxist Man
Toward a Principle of Evil
Feminism
Feminism, by Reading, Postmodernism, Meaghan Morris
Feminism and Postmodernism
Social Criticsim without Philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism
The Demise of Experience: Fiction as stranger than truth?
Periphery and Postmodernism
Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today
Postmodernism and Periphery
Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A response to the 'postmodern' condition